Today in History

1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in 4 hours, 55 minutes.

Forty-seven years later we’ve gone to the moon, have a space station in orbit satellites all over the place probes exploring the solar system and that’s about it. Man is stuck on Earth and near Earth orbit. Probably that’s where the United States is going to stay. Whether China and Russia are grounded remains to be seen. That’s what NASA has given us. If the bureaucrats will get out of the way and let the private sector step up maybe maybe one of the remaining remotely free nations left on this planet will move into space.